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I don't know if Rovell has his facts straight or not, but I can assure you that the university is never again going to file suit against the Colts if the team doesn't quit using the trademark. The Colts have all the information they need to crush TAMU. I still think it is rather chicken**** (for lack of a better word) that the university thinks the terms of the agreement need to be kept as a state secret. As a state entity, the university should be as transparent as they can be in their business dealings and nothing about the settlement of a suit regarding intellectual property that belongs to the people of the state of Texas needs to be kept from the people of the state of Texas.

Last year the university tried to go after Chuckie Sonntag and they ended up paying him to get him to agree to a confidentiality agreement. This time they tried to sue the Colts and didn't get a dime. There won't be another attempt to defend their trademark. Their 12th Man tradition did not originate in 1922 with E. King Gill. There is no way around that fact.

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Oh Dan Dan the twisting truth man!

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I don't know if Rovell has his facts straight or not, but I can assure you that the university is never again going to file suit against the Colts if the team doesn't quit using the trademark. The Colts have all the information they need to crush TAMU. I still think it is rather chicken**** (for lack of a better word) that the university thinks the terms of the agreement need to be kept as a state secret. As a state entity, the university should be as transparent as they can be in their business dealings and nothing about the settlement of a suit regarding intellectual property that belongs to the people of the state of Texas needs to be kept from the people of the state of Texas.

Last year the university tried to go after Chuckie Sonntag and they ended up paying him to get him to agree to a confidentiality agreement. This time they tried to sue the Colts and didn't get a dime. There won't be another attempt to defend their trademark. Their 12th Man tradition did not originate in 1922 with E. King Gill. There is no way around that fact.

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Randolph Duke is Dead

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Time has come for Randolph Duke to fess up and explain.

Another of the partners in the Dallas office of the law firm I work at is a Michigan grad. Last summer, we got into a discussion about Scientology and its cult-like attributes, and about other cults. Not knowing much about Texas A&M, he asked why so many Longhorns joked about the ****s being a cult. I explained some about their behavior and, after a few drinks, we entered into a bet.

I told him to list what he thought were the attributes of a cult. He offered up the International Cultic Studies Association (icsahome.com) and a list of attributes offered by Janja Lalich, Ph.D. & Michael D. Langone, Ph.D. (www.csj.org/infoserv_cult101/checklis.htm). I bet the my friend $1000 and asteak dinner that within a year, by using only truth and hyperbole, and posting only on UT fan sites, I could cause the ****s to display each of the attributes of a cult. At the same time, the Longhorn faithful on Sh****bevo would roll their eyes and see through all the over-the-top rhetoric and understand much of the message was just an attempt to be incendiary. We decided he would follow on Texags and follow the reactions of the ags over there with respect to Randolph Duke.

Today, I got an email from him conceding the bet. I need to thank Statsman for his comment earlier today that sealed the bet. (In a thread about Rick Perry's meddling in the activities of UT, Statsman, started a posting saying how he wasn't one to defend me, but ...http://www.sh****bevo.com/board/show...-Hair-Up/page2 . It was this that convinced my friend that Longhorns didn't take Randolph Duke seriously at all).

In watching the threads dedicated to Randolph Duke over on texags, the guy was shocked and amazed. "Excessive zealous and unquestioning commitment to its leader" - check. Chanting - check. Talking in tongues - "Whoop!". A polarized us-vs-them mentality - check. His favorite was punishing those who dissent. The ags over there know what I do for a living - lawyer, where I want to law school - Northwestern, where I live - NYC. yet, they are currently plotting to torment some poor soul down in Tomball, Texas. One guy wants to give the guy a physical beating, another guy wants to ruin him professionally. All because someone posted things on a Texas Longhorn website that spoke in unflattering words against their beloved school. Wrong time zone, wrong city, wrong profession, yet every **** over there claims they know who I am in real life. This poor guy may be attacked, yet not a one of them will care. My friend from Michigan was amazed that not a single of the ags over there, ostensibly adults, educated at what claims to be an elite university would fail to tell the others in the group to simply ignore other posters on other boards. Instead, these guys went bat**** crazy, wanting to hunt down the infidel and silence him with physical violence. My friend's comment was "No wonder so many of you are so happy they left your conference."

So I am now a richer man. It is time for Randolph Duke to ride off into the sunset. The bet will be paid off tonight at Sparks' Steak House. Assuming some overzealous **** doesn't pull a John Gotti to my Paul Castellano, I will be back on occasion, but having won the bet, its time for me to take a break. Anyone Longhorns who might want a free drink this evening as we hold a wake for dear departed Randolph, the drinks are on the Maize and Blue tonight. Send me a message and I will tell you how to recognize us. I will be the one in the burnt orange tie laughing all the way to the bank.

Hook 'Em!

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The ags over there know what I do for a living - lawyer, where I want to law school - Northwestern, where I live - NYC

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"In the end we decided the phrase itself was more important to Texas A&M than to us and we didn't feel making a change was a big issue for the vast majority of Colts fans," Colts chief operating officer Pete Ward said. "It wasn't worth a battle with the university. We will still recognize our crowd in the Ring of Honor in a manner to be announced in the near future."

The lawsuit said the Colts' use of the phrase would "cause confusion or deceive customers" about an affiliation with Texas A&M and "dilute and/or tarnish the distinctiveness and fame" the school receives from the trademark.

The Colts used the trademark to help sell tickets and merchandise, including an ad urging fans to "Join the 12th Man." The team also sold a "12th Man" blanket online. Both examples were included in the lawsuit.

Trademark owners who don't police the unauthorized use of a trademark risk losing the legal rights to it, according to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

The university said the Colts agreed informally in 2006 not to use "12th Man" outside the RCA Dome, and that the Colts didn't respond to letters about the issue from Texas A&M in 2008 and 2012.

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This is just setting the stage for Seattle when the licensing agreement runs out later this year. All part of Randy's multi year plan to bring down the fraudulent Aggie leadership for their lack of integrity.

And when that truth is finally exposed, the state will have no choice but to amend the state's constitution!!!

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Poor Randy.

The Colts did exactly what two other billion-dollar NFL franchises previously did: rather than lose in court, they ran up the white flag of surrender after looking at all the evidence and concluding they had no legal leg to stand on.

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The latest ( he's now on hornsports)

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Let them gloat, let them puff out their chests, let them get all their shots in at me. Just let them do what they do. This reminds me of their celebrations when they took the 25-24 lead late in the fourth. Soak in their cheers.

You will be rewarded for your patience.

Go buy a nice, fat cigar, put it in the humidor and make sure you have your beverage of choice close at hand. You will know when its time to light up.

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